Scientists Find Genetic ‘Switch’ For Obesity
Now all scientists have to do is to develop medicines that manipulate the genes to prevent high blood pressure, diabetes, and other related diseases. Scientists Find Genetic ‘Switch’ For Obesity.Filed...
View ArticleHurricane Sandy Shook The U.S. Like An Earthquake
By Becky Oskin Hurricane Sandy’s fateful left turn toward the mid-Atlantic Coast in October last year lit up earthquake monitors all the way to Seattle, according to results presented at the...
View ArticleThis Week’s Killer Heat Wave Threatens To Cause Earth’s Hottest Temps Ever
By April M. Short If you’re spending this week in California, Nevada, Arizona, or even parts of Wyoming and Idaho, prepare to burn. A potentially historic heat wave is headed your way from Thursday...
View ArticleNIH finally makes good with Henrietta Lacks’ family — and it’s about time,...
Originally posted on theGrio: NBC News – Over the past six decades, huge medical advances have sprung from the cells of Henrietta Lacks, a poor, African-American mother of five who died in 1951 of...
View ArticleGeeking Out: Uganda’s Women are Creating the Next Generation of Girl Geeks
By Mike Miesen (photo credit: omniafrikan.com) Young women are learning to program computers in the unlikeliest of places, developing apps that will help their neighbors—and themselves. If not for a...
View ArticleRacism May Accelerate Aging in African American Men
By University of Maryland (photo credit: Scientific American) A new University of Maryland-led study reveals that racism may impact aging at the cellular level. Researchers found signs of accelerated...
View ArticleMeet the Chicago teen who may cure colon cancer
By Carol Kuruvilla A 19-year-old Chicago teen may one day hold the key to curing colon cancer. If his previous successes are any indication, Keven Stonewall is well on his way to becoming the kind of...
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